skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your'e right that the playbook in reality looks more like a short term squeeze of cashflow with schemes far less imaginative than you'd think.

Some recent news stories I have enjoyed on the matter

*about Authentic Brands Inc - which in short parks on defunct retail brands and liscences out the manufacture while owning no capital themselves.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/02/1209684529/retail-bankruptcy-...

Two part podcast on implications of private equity form Freakonomics (I find balanced, rigorous, and asks challenging questions of its contributors)

1) https://freakonomics.com/podcast/should-you-trust-private-eq...

2) https://freakonomics.com/podcast/are-private-equity-firms-pl...
Thank you. That's what I originally meant. You tell your story. You offer stuff to others with same problem might find very useful.

OP did just whine about in a longish post, how bad it is and how low active that guy now is and so on.. that's public whining. One talks about oneself, do not even think of others - others like me or the other guys, whomever has something different than RSI and who would be happy to change for RSI.

... And then you have someone who is "loosing his hands" -

It's a kick in the face of someone who really lost his hands and now has to cope with a handless life, while the first person complains to not be able to type anymore.

That's what my comment is about. To be modest and think- and thankfull. To cope with the illness, but not to whine about it. That lets everyone feel better.
The article defines “phenomenal consciousness “ as feeling pain, pleasure or hunger, but not necessarily a sense of self.
Skilled negotiator would know that how their counterparty feels is extremely important. This is exactly what determines whether they would pay or not.

Now, the real question is: how does a skilled negotiator frame “pay me $1000 and I’ll leave tomorrow” in such a way that the landlord feels like a hero for complying? With a neutral third party suggesting this, it is pretty easy as OP post suggests, but if you're the tenant suggesting that I think it won’t be as easy.
it was obvious that the Earth was flat until not too long ago in Human History.
Nintendo is in an interesting position whereby they are actually selling emulators as a product to this day. Which gives them more of a leg to stand on in these sorts of efforts, regardless of whether or not I personally agree.
I’m disappointed this was all about the stunt of breaking things. I study Okinawan karate and true masters generate tremendous power via the tantien and rooting into the ground. It would be interesting to read a western analysis of that.
There is more to running a good business than being profitable.
is there a source for this outside 1 guy on twitter? If they were holding an event I would imagine invites would have gone out a while ago like their dev day..
"give me a function to return the top 10 users"
- copy paste
"give me another to email a template to a list of users"
- copy paste

AI makes it much easier to push out bad code, fast...in a "frenzied" way one could say.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106541 (5 comments)
The insidious thing is that quite possibly, it "feels" there should be a couple of bugs like that because all the codebases it was trained on had a few.

It might even take the context of the typos in your code comments, and conclude "yeah, this easy to miss subtle error feels right about here".
You and I both know that is not how laws are enforced by any country anywhere in the world.
Maybe the price drops enough so that the renters can afford to buy.
RealPage min-maxing pricing is a large part of the problem.
Uncomplicating the complex: How Spanner simplifies microservices
How circumlocutious.
Good one, however, like Google making memory worse, copilot seems to erode knowledge of programming quite quickly. Last week I was with a colleague at my house; when I hired him during covid he knew these things just fine, but after not having to type in a list comprehension for around 2 years now, when my Starlink was down for a bit, he couldn’t for the life of him create one; he asked Claude opus on his phone instead.
Its a 15 minute walk there, 15 minute walk back. But I make the trip twice... they only do it once. So they get 15 minutes at a time.
he did also say they weren't going to try and make their own chips in an Oxford interview. I think he is known for saying one thing while doing the other. Like the former board said, he isn't always candid.
Most insects have hundreds of thousands of neurons. Even simple mammals have dozens of millions. Dogs have billions. Humans, elephants, dolphins have 1 to 2 dozen billion.

While differences between e.g. humans and dogs is pretty large, it's still roughly of the same order. This is something you can meaningfully compare with similar(-ish) frame of references.

I don't think you can compare "consciousness" as experienced by humans, elephants, apes, and dogs with "consciousness" as experienced by a bee with ~800,000 neurons, for any meaning of "consciousness". Even extrapolating rolling around a little ball to "play" is a huge stretch; many insects can exhibit all sorts of absurd behaviour because their programming misfires.
This is something that is true in 2024. I would not bet on it being true in 2030.
Did it just now:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240504053821/https://www.veriz...
>> Having an oracle that knows all answers is useless if you don't know what to ask.

That is a great point. The issue of not asking the right questions has been around as far as I can remember but I guess it wasn't seen as the bottleneck because people were so focused on solving problems by any means possible that they never had to think about solving problems in a simple way. We're still very far from that though and in some ways we have taken steps back. I hope AI will help to shift human focus towards code architecture because that's something that has been severely neglected. Most complex projects I've seen are severely over-engineered... They are complex but they should not have grown to hundreds of thousands of lines of code; had people asked the right questions, focused on the right problems and chosen the right trade-offs, they would have been under 10K lines and way more efficient, interoperable and reliable.

I should note though, that my experience with coding with AI is that it often makes mistakes for complex algorithms, or it implements them in an inefficient way and I almost always have to change them. I get a lot of benefit from asking questions about APIs and to verify my assumptions or if I need a suggestion about possible approaches to do something.
This whole process is now beyond ridiculous and nobody seems to know what to do about it.

In 1998, I was hired after one interview where we talked for about 10 minutes, then I was asked to sit down at a computer and demonstrate that I could use vi and knew how to get a query string from environment variables in C.

I stayed there for 24 years, hit major burnout when I was forced into more social roles, took some time off, and now I have no idea how to effectively navigate this Kafkaesque hiring process.
Aiding and abetting, that's what it is. Those mosquitos know what they are doing.
A device manufacturer should not be able to simply decide to remove functionality from a device I bought and paid for. Would you accept it if your stove’s manufacturer decided to “cease support” and removed a few heating elements from the stove? Would you accept it if your car’s manufacturer decided to “cease support” for sedans and removed the back seats from your car? Consumers would not roll over and accept this behavior, and I’d hope in those cases the manufacturers would be liable for something.

Somehow, for connected devices we excuse this same thing “because internet”. I’m hoping this is just a case of the law moving slowly and not catching up.
Is this a false DMCA notice? See: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1cie1rv/comment/l2...
Navy has very, very good antifouling tech. It'll be far less of a problem than you'd think.
Them being conscious doesn't change anything, they're assholes and they chose to fight you by biting you.
It doesn't include the offending keys. This is the portion Nintendo is using as an excuse to strike the GitHub projects.
Surprising to hear Figma had a custom language for JS. Even more surprising that it was faster than TS. And then they migrate off it onto slower TS!

Seems to happen a lot though. Company makes custom stuff early on, gets big, then migrates to something "standard".
I agree but funnily enough I think this kind of operation is probably one of the most effective things we could do to establish those institutions.

I have always suspected that one of the most effective things you can do to make a lasting and significant impact on problems like this is to infiltrate hostile communities and influence them in favour of the _ideas_ that are needed to create a more reasonable political landscape.

So, like what OP did, but instead of "cashing in" on a single tenuously pro-tenant action, I would "cash in" on an argument in favour of, for example, fair and neutral government mediation services for tenant disputes. Or something of that nature.
This happens literally every single day in residential construction. Aside from the building code, there isn't typically a "spec" for construction. The plan doesn't specify "this wall shall be plumb to within +/- 0.001 radians". Somehow, cabinets still get hung even though the framer framed a crooked wall on top of a crooked stem wall all because foundation guy was hungover that day.
I don't understand. Is code review supposed to avoid writing coffee twice?
> 1970s data center

Off-topic but: That's something I'd really, really like to see.
I've been running this for about 15 years now:

ddiederi@ddiederi-mac notes % while [ 1 ]
do
git add -A .
git commit -am wip;git push;git pull
sleep 6
done
Sadly, there's no way to use those glasses while also charging. I'd buy one instantly if there were a readily available solution for that.
From a hacker/researcher perspective: this is really cool.

From a user perspective: I hate this.

I think the technical aspects of this are cool and like a good challenging project. There's definitely respect in that. But at the same time it feels like the enshitification of these spaces that are being overrun with low quality and automated content.
It sounds like you and GP are talking about two different things when referring to "consciousness".
Sorry, I meant to link here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40220072#40244714
> I am surprised these things are treated as normal.

Most Americans have never lived, or significantly traveled, in a country other than their own.

So they naturally treat every aspect of American culture as "the only possible way."

It's really a shame. America has many great things. And in some areas, e.g. how prices are displayed, and healthcare, we could definitely learn from others.
> That Yuzu reportedly has generally better performance than a Switch console couldn't have helped, either.

What does that even mean? I think you mean: "the fact that yuzu could be run on hardware that allowed it to perform better than a switch console".

Emulation, by it's very nature, will always perform worse. But the underlying hardware could be significantly better.
Shannon is the closest equivalent to Einstein in contribution but for engineering fields.

He pioneered several foundational research in the engineering field including communication entropy, cryptography, chess engine, robotic intelligence, digital boolean, LLM and modern AI in general. An outstanding engineer, or engineer's engineer in a true sense of word.
Maybe bees get akathisia from spherical objects.
So if humans are limited by the precondition of language, other creatures must be too?
So are you going to leave your channel up to continue to pollute YouTube search results with content even you dislike?
One of my first coworkers, my senior at that time, told me that software development is 50% debugging, 40% reading and thinking and only 10% coding. Optimizing those 10% is not that important.
> More than ever now, I’m allergic to generic written shit (which seems like what most of search results and articles are these days)

You realize you contributed to the problem by producing more generic shit, right?

It's the largest net negative of AI for me. Wasting my time reading AI generated garbage is just bloody awful.
Good point. There must be some as-yet-undiscovered football league for bees, for when they're not just playing around. ;)
I thought this was going to be all Nintendo emulators, thankfully it is only yuzu (switch emulator) related.
It doesn't say much, it's an obituary from [1] for the author of [2] and other books, and it just vaguely refers to his ideas on consciousness and the brain. Too bad since the concepts seem very interesting.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_your_brain_hallucinates_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_Explained
Psystar wasn't emulating Mac OS X, they were running native code. They broke it's security measures to allow it to run on non-Apple hardware.

These two cases have very little to do with each other outside of the cryptographic portion.
This happens all the time, I'm even surprised this is a blog post. I was paid to move by landlords twice already, one of them I didn't even ask, the other was a basic conversation about it.

I mean I'm glad this guy is doing something that makes him feel good, but this felt like reading someone describing their commute to work as if it was WW2.
I am 51 and have run 10km a day for 28 years. I stretch 1-2 hours per day (yoga/pilates/general stretching) and remain completely pain free.
Sorry, the cells that were going to answer that are on vacation visiting in another human.
Sun does move around the earth though. Doesn't it?
I had the exact same initial thought. I don’t fully grasp the definition of the term consciousness but I guess for me it boils down to loving.
Range hoods stay winning
A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair
It may be a stretch but since we don’t know the exact criteria for the kind of consciousness the article and scientists refer to, it seems rash to dismiss it out of hand. And quite the leap to call it “absurd behavior”
Play isn't idle play, we do it all for a reason, like all other animals. Kittens play to practice hunting. Puppies play to practice fighting. It's an evolved behavior where animals that practice do better than animals that don't.

It's pretty clear by inspection that with these wooden balls bees are exhibiting some sort of evolved behavioral response to their environmental stimulus. Might be related to sex, collecting food, protection from predators or some other activity that's critical for bee survival and replication.

My theory, which is as good as any other until investigated, is that bumblebees compete with other bumblebees for habitat, food and sexual/mating opportunities, and have naturally evolved to detect, fly into, grab and push around and maybe even fight with spherical, bumblebee-sized objects. For an animal behavioral scientist, it seems like this should be the first conclusion, no?
Sounds like they're including plants.
> An optimal "synthetic baseload" for the US from wind and solar might use 6 hours of battery storage (and e-fuels)

This tempers high-frequency variation. The 2% over a full year lower-frequency variation is the problem.

You’re proposing good ideas. But they’re untested and contain fundamental engineering risk. It’s similar to when pro-nuke folk assume SMRs will happen; hence, the analogy.
I am genuinely surprised you've managed to do that :) You say you aren't a coder, does that mean you've never learned to program in any language?

Edit: unless the the bug fixes were trivial
> This is exactly what determines whether they would pay or not.

It really isn't. They're a landlord. If one option loses them less money they'll pick that option. The finances will win because they're not putting the house on the market to get warm fuzzy feelings. If they've been a landlord for even a small number of tenants they're used to outrageous demands and know how to take them in stride.

They're more likely to accept the frame if it is nicely presented, but at the end of the day they'll swallow their feelings and choose the cheap option unless a tenant is being an outrageous bastard about the whole thing.

I agree that their feelings are important. But their finances are really the guiding star for their decision making.
I wonder if there’s a “git over BitTorrent”.

Having a cryptographically signed (by authors, not by GitHub) and fully open source git hosting network would be a boom for FOSS security in general.
This seems confused to me. I don't see how bees playing, octopuses reacting to harmful stimuli, and cuttlefish remembering things is evidence of consciousness, and the article seems to confuse those things with bees having fun, octopuses feeling pain, and cuttlefish having reflective inner lives. But those are different things! Those are what we would experience doing those things, but it doesn't follow at all the other beings will just because they perform these activities.

A thought exercise is to imagine programming a little robot. It can play with balls because you program it to stimulate objects in its environment, and it has a heuristic called "interesting" that controls what it plays with. It can detect when it is damaged and avoid places where the damage happened (you can even call the variable where you store the quantity of damage "pain" if you want). It can remember places or objects by encoding characteristics about them and storing on the onboard flash drive. While none of that is at all easy, those are all things you could imagine programming without some great conceptual breakthrough. But you would probably not suspect your robot is conscious.

That's not an argument that bees are not conscious, and as far I understand it, there's no conceivable way to really know, and we don't even really have a great definition of consciousness to begin with. We have only guesses, and usually those guesses are something like "well, it seems like something that must emerge from a sufficiently complex brain, and mammals and birds have big complex brains, so they probably do, and mollusks don't, so probably they don't", etc.

A related thought exercise is to imagine an alien that is very smart but is not conscious, and doesn't understand us when we ask it about the experience of being itself.
Because normal people will own maybe 1 place and take normal decisions. I know many people that own a rental place, but I don't know anyone that frequents "landlord groups". If you're a member of a group like that you're already a sub-population that probably wants to "landlord harder".
Ah, this brought a lot of memories back. I remember meeting the sysop of "Alternate Reality" because I needed an ISA IDE interface board, and he had one "somewhere" he said. I was a teen, 15 or 16, and when I went to his house I met a slovenly man in his 20's or 30's ("old" to then me) and he had the goods, and I paid him.

Later on I got into a 'l33t' BBS through a guy at work and I got the first 28.8k modem of anybody I knew, from him. In retrospect, I'm pretty sure it fell off a truck at some point before I got it.

And then there was the time I started my own BBS. The local paper (1995ish) published a technology column every Monday, and I wrote in about my BBS. I got one call from that, from somebody who figured out that they'd mixed up the last two numbers. sigh.

I never BBS'd after that, but the early days of Prodigy, AOL, and BBS's set me up for much of who I am and what I still do to this day.
They explain this in the article. These scientists talk about a basic level of consciousness that does not include a notion of self. This would put the bees in the same category with animals that experience for example pleasure and pain but have no notion of self. You may disagree with calling that consciousness, but it is at least consistent
Great explanation, of a very cool concept.
this is an excellent point, and in retrospect obvious
is this https://pola.rs/ ?
I'm on a similar path (VSCodium + FOAM plugin, and then using MkDocs & Roam-links plugin to export as HTML). Can you share some of the VSCode plugins / settings / color schemes / etc which have been working well for you?
Often because the "standard" thing was not always the standard.

Like, all those people that chose Flow now have something "non-standard."
> The car has a 23.2 kWh battery pack with a CLTC range of 230 kilometers (140 mi)

23.2 kWh achieving 140 miles range sounds unrealistic. For example the 57kWh model 3 has a range of ~260 miles.
Landlords are businessmen, I got paid to leave once as tenant. We all won.
Note really. A table saw is incredibly versatile tool. Yes, it has a bog standard purpose of ripping stock to width, but there are scores of uses beyond that. E.g., removing the fence and freehanding a 20 foot piece of baseboard through it to cut a scribe. There are plenty of professionals who do that. Source: I used to be one.
I still have a hard time believing this. That is not to say that the science is wrong. It’s just that it is very unintuitive to me.
This reminded me of something that's kind of relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_in_a_hurry

> A moron in a hurry is a phrase that has been used in legal cases, especially in the UK, involving trademark infringement and passing off. Where one party alleges that another (the defendant) has infringed their intellectual property rights by offering for sale a product that is confusably similar to their own, the court has to decide whether a reasonable person would be misled by the defendant's trademark or the get-up of their product. It has been held that "if only a moron in a hurry would be misled" the case is not made out.

In this context, yes, some UIs have to be usable by a moron in a hurry. Fire alarm? Gotta make it easy to use even if you get the occasional dipshit who pulls it for fun, because the alternative is tragic. That's why doors in public buildings have crash bars, the bars that go across the door that open it when someone crashes into them, because you have to assume eventually there will be a crowd of idiots in a hurry trying desperately to escape, and the crowd crush must open the door because otherwise it will kill people.
I live in an area in France where the car reigns, and if I don’t do conscious exercise every day, I can end up with fewer than 1000 steps a day: Bed to kitchen, to the car, to meetings, then back home.
Show HN: Worlds of Words – a new take on word association games
For now, Nintendo won the lawsuit against Yuzu, on grounds of piracy.

Given how most emulators can allow playing pirated games, the others might be next.
Divisor Function
At some point Napoleon (who, for propaganda purposes, obviously had to replace the lilies* of the french monarchy) chose bees.

I wonder if anyone left a rationale for this decision, and if so, whether it mentions social systems?

* considering the lily: a monarch can't have a day job, as they spend far too much time intriguing (in the old days) or shuttling between photo ops (in our days) to have 40 hours/week free for to spend away from the sword of Damocles; the best they can hope for is a few stolen moments in the privacy of the Drones' Club.
Unless you are a software developer, then 90% of apps isn't in SCCM crapware and you don't put repos/ssh keys and other stuff in onedrive/sharepoint, and then setup after reimage takes half a day.
If this had TeX I'd be interested immediately. There's no great way at the moment to mathematical notes, it's a big pain point.
XML is also used, literally, for office documents (Word, Excel, etc).
or you can criticize individual companies in the blockchain space, like this article does about the founders of the blockchain group

the government knows how to, but that’s why we have representatives, founding fathers figured the masses weren’t smart enough

but you can prove them wrong, I believe in you